Household utensil



(No Model.)

- .J. WOOD.

HOUSEHOLD UTENSIL. No. 471,162; Patented Mar. 22,1892.

MJZ/ 'JMMZZ NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN WOOD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOUSEHOLD UTENSIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,1 62, dated March 22, 1892. Application filed February 4, 1891. Serial No. 380,224. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JOHN- WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Household Utensils, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide means for securing a dust or crumb brush to a pan when the same is notin use; andit consists in other, improvements, which will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

Referring to the drawing, the single figure thereof shows by preference a dust-pan with my improvement applied thereto.

The letter O indicates adust-pan, and A a strip of metal or awire, which extendsin thisinstance through perforations in the cap of the pan-handle. This strip of meta] or wire may be bent and then twisted, as shown,so as to form a loop or handle by which the device may be operated. The twist also serves to limit the downward movement of the parallel strips. The strip or wire is bent upon itself and then passed through the cap or an offset thereon, and its ends B are passed through perforations a in the side of the pan and are then given the requisite curvature, so as to embrace any object that may be placed upon them, which they will grasp and retain.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pan 0, provided with perforations Ctlll its back edge, in combination with the brushholder A, provided with a suspension-eye at its center and two parallel portions extending from said eye through the said perforations a, and each portion bent beyond the point where it passes through the perforations away from each other parallel with the back edge of the pan and provided at its end with curved portions, whereby the Weight of the pan, when suspended by the eye of the brush'holder, will grasp a-brush between such curved ends and the back edge of the pan, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. JOHN l/VOOD. itnesses:

J. P. BEROHRONG, WM. NAYLOR. 

